Mona Nour
PhD, LCMHC, BC-TMH
Mona Nour (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and the founder of Nour Counseling. She is a Board Certified Telemental Health provider (BC-TMH 2040) and a counselor educator with 20 years experience in counseling, teaching, and program development in colleges and schools. Mona received her master’s degree in 2005 from NC State University in counselor education with a focus on college students. She later earned a Ph.D. from NC State in counseling, and researched identity processes of bicultural individuals whose parents immigrated to the United States.
As an Egyptian American girl in rural NC, Mona silently suffered with daily microaggressions about her heritage. These painful experiences, combined with family loss, created a foundation for self-doubt, self-consciousness, and general confusion about her place in the world. When the inevitable question of “WHAT are you?” would arise, Mona started to wonder herself. This singular painful question propelled her into a lifetime quest to discover WHO she is beyond the WHAT, and to support others in their own exploration. She began identifying various “parts” of self beyond her bicultural components, which has led her to create models on universal identity and belonging.
Mona’s counseling approach is based in exploring both the inner and outer worlds of an individual, and navigating the integration of the two. This involves identifying aspects of personality, thought patterns, and emotional responses, followed by an understanding of the environment, and how this outer world supports and challenges the person’s growth. She uses this information to help create a symbiotic relationship between the world within and the world around.
Mona believes that knowledge is power, and incorporates psychoeducation and collaborative approaches that are based on the client’s strengths. She personalizes the counseling experience, using a combination of solution-focused, cognitive behavior, and existential therapy with a humanistic, values-driven foundation.
Mona works with adults of all ages with a variety of presenting concerns, and she has a special interest in experiences associated with marginalized populations, anxiety-based disorders, communication skills, and identity.
